Published October 10, 2019•Updated on October 10, 2019 at 6:41 pm

On Thursday morning, Dallas Independent School District Board Member and former Dallas Mayoral Candidate, Miguel Solis, stood on stage at The Rustic in Dallas. It wasn't a campaign speech. Solis was speaking from the heart.

"Because of the amazing things happening for my daughter, her life was saved," Solis said. "At 12:07 on her three-month birthday, Olivia's new heart began to beat, and it's been beating strong ever since."

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"There are families in this hospital, Children's Health, who are experiencing the same thing that we experienced who aren't sure whether their outcome at the end is going to be as joyful as our outcome was," Solis said.

"There are only a few places in the country that Olivia would have survived," said Olivia's transplant surgeon Dr. Jake Jaquiss. "She had to be in a place which was willing to take a chance on someone who was high risk by any sort of yardstick."

She also had to have a family willing to donate a child's heart.

"Someone made a selfless decision, perhaps in the darkest moment of their lives, in order to breathe life into my daughter," Solis said. "That family needs to know what that selfless decision means to us."

This weekend the Solis family will meet with the donor's family. Solis said they asked for one thing; to be able to listen to Olivia's heart.